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EDITOR’S NOTE
ARTS & INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS • 4.2 • AUTUMN 2019
The incredible part of Wroclaw’s story�here retold through the editorial vision of
the city’s Mayor Rafał Dutkiewicz (2002–2018)�is its ability to project itself into
the progressive reaches of the twenty-first century while not forgetting its cultural
past. The 14 short essays on Wroclaw attest to its resilience through time, its destruction
during the Second World War and rejuvenation thereafter, and its subsequent transformation
into a pan-European city after the fall of the Soviet led communist bloc. The
‘incredible’ cosmopolitanism is of a city that over the last 1,000 years has known both
Europe’s traditions and modernities: its wars, destructions, and upheavals; its humanism
and religions; and its sense of community�Silesian, German, Polish, East European,
and now that of the European Union. It rightfully earned its place in 2016 as a European
Capital of Culture.
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